Jefferson Davis was born on June, 3rd, 1808, in Christian
             County, Kentucky. He was educated at Transylvania University and at
             the U.S. Military Academy. After his graduation in 1828, he served in
             the army until bad health forced him to reside in 1835. He was a
             farmer in Mississippi from 1835 to 1845. Then he was elected to the
             U.S. congress. In 1846, he resigned his seat in order to serve in the
             Mexican War and fought at Monterrey and Buena Vista, where he
             was wounded. He was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to
             1857, and a U.S. Senator again from 1857 to 1861. As a Senator, he
             was in support of slavery and states' rights. "He also influenced Pice
             to sign in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which favored the South and
             increased the bitterness of the struggle over slavery. " In his second
             term as a Senator he became the spokesman for the Southern point
             of view. He opposed the idea of secession from the Union as a way
             of maintaining the principles in the South. Even after the first steps
             toward secession had been taken, he tried to keep the Southern
             states in the Union. When the state of Mississippi seceeded, he
             withdrew from the Senate. On February 18, 1861, the congress of
             the Confederate States made him president. He was elected to the
             office by popular vote for a 6-year term and was inaugurated un
             Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy. He failed to
             raise enough money to fight the Civil War and could not obtain help
             for the Confederacy from foreign governments. One of the
             accomplishments of Jefferson Davis, was the raising of the
             Confederate army. Davis had a difficult task to preform. He was the
             head of the new nation in the beginnings of a major war. The South
             had inferior railroads compared to the Union, no navy, no gunpowder
             mills, and a reat lack of arms and ammunition. "The South's
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